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The team originally comprised of Richie McBride and Martyn Sloss, alongside Robin Iddon in earlier series. These three fought with All Torque in Series 2 and 3.

Team Torque with All Torque in the First World Championship

In the First World Championship, the team were joined by a child, referred to as "DJ", but his full name was not listed on the statboard, nor is his name listed on the team's site.[1]

"Who would believe this baby faced boy could dream up weapons so vicious they could not be displayed on TV"

— Team Torque website on "DJ"

After the retirement of All Torque, a new machine Small Torque was built, but Iddon had left the team. Martyn Sloss was the team captain in Series 2-3, before Richie McBride took over.

Richie McBride and his children with Hippobotomus

The team made two robots for Extreme 1 and Series 5, Fighting Torque and Hippobotomus. Fighting Torque exclusively appeared in a Mayhem battle of Extreme 1, but had already been replaced by Hippobotomus by the time it was given a Wild Card entry into the second Annihilator after Atomic pulled out, so it fought under the previous name. Hippobotomus fought under its new name in Series 5.

The Sloss family in Series 5

For Series 5, Martyn Sloss joined up with his wife, Lesley, and son, Daniel, to enter another machine, Bot Out Of Hell, whilst Richie McBride fought with his daughter Ellie as well as his son Alex whilst with Hippobotomus. However, Martyn and Richie fought together during Fighting Torque's Extreme 1 Mayhem.

Lesley Sloss had previously been the web-mistress of the team's website.[2]

"Lesley cracked the whip when we were not getting on with our stuff. "